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It was a bright, sunny day on the Tremor City public beach. People were swimming, tanning and just generally relaxing. Among the people was Orta Merez, a tiger shark dressed in an extra large black bikini and having a swim on the far end of the water.

Meanwhile her boy-friend, Skarius Snowtalon, a snow dragon, lounged lazily underneath the umbrella stand he'd set up, casually sipping his Coke without a care in the world. Before he was finally left alone, several groups of people came up to him wanting to him to sign autographs - being a good man in a storm, a hero and a benevolent CEO certainly attracted attention.

He was dressed in nothing but white and blue boardie shorts - white and blue being the main color of his company, Avalanche Technology Firm, and his favorite combination of colors.

Orta rested near one of the buoys when she saw a skinny green lizard swimming next to her. He appeared to be no older than 16. Orta could have used a conversation and approached. This attempt at friendlyness was suddenly interrupted with the lizard being dragged under by something.

As this happened The dragon's unfixed gaze was suddenly snapped back into the real world when he saw a green reptile suddenly being reeled underwater.

The tiger shark's eyes widened as well as she saw the lizard boy being snatched and dove right under in response. The lizard was being held under by a power armored figure of an unknown race and a design she hasnt seen before. The onyx black suit was coated in red runes of a long forgotten language and its fingertips glew with the bright blue shine of a mono-weapon.

The dragon's mouth fell ajar and he reached for a comically oversized backpack nearby, pulling out a white and navy blue, rectangular device, with light blue or cyan lights on it. He threw it down in the sand before stepping on it, becoming near instantaneously enveloped in his signature suit of power armor. "Everyone out! Get out of the water!"

Damnit! Her suit was all the way back on the beach and the attacker and their hostage will be long gone by the time she gets it. Seeing no other option she dove at the armored figure, hoping to distract it enough it until Snow or other, more well-equipped heroes come to help and hopefully to loosen the attackers grip on the lizard, who appeared to have suddenly had a breather mask strapped onto him, they wanted him alive.

Snowtalon activated his jetboots and leapt into the air majestically...only to land flat, face-first, on his visor. "OBSTRUCTION IN THRUSTERS." - read the information on his visor. "Are you effin' serious? Bollocks, I hate running!" The dragon pulled himself together and made for his rescue attempt, approaching the ominious armored figure as fast as he could.

Seeing that the bikinied shark has called in back-up he immediatly swatted her aside and bolted further into the sea with astonishing speed. Orta let out a pained gasp as the figure punch her in the gut, knocking all air out of her. The hostage could only scream and make underwater bubbling noises as he was dragged off.

"Oh, you bastard! NOBODY hurts her!" Snowy dove into the water. Whatever obstruction was inside his feet thrusters, they were gone now, and he started boosting towards the armored suit. His back thrusters were working now as well.

The rune-covered suits back opened up and cause what appeared to be many small bombs to deploy from it. Whoever this thing was they knew how to fight underwater. A mere second after the bomb was deployed the figure dived down into a nearbly field of algae, hoping to hide until its pursuer stops.

Meanwhile Orta quickly swam back to shore, running to her bag and unzipping it, revealing the bio-organic suit that she wears. She quickly cast her bikini aside and donned the suit minus its shorts and ran back into the sea. As she was running she opened a private channel to contact Snow. "Whats going on?" She asked demandingly.

"Honey, are you okay?" The dragon was somewhat concerned, asking if she was alright. Since the two were dating, Snow had become quite protective of her. Not...overly so, but she was just physically assaulted, and Snow would not stand for that shit.

He reeled backwards, his thrusters changing their vectors to mvoe in another direction as he saw the bombs. He could not tell if they were proximity mines or timed.

Though obviously the bombs were proximity because timed wouldnt be good in evading pursuers. "Yeah. Just have a trouble breathi-" Her conversation was interrupted with a loud raspy gasp for air and coughing; It really took the wind out of her.

The tiger shark dove into the sea and quickly began to follow after them, the suits stunningly redundant rebreather activating.

Above the surface people had scrammed everywhere in a cacophony of terror, as was commonplace amongst Tremor citizens. Police were arriving on-scene, but Orta and Snowy were already inside the water. Snow gave nothing but a glance to Orta - "Why the bloody 'ell do you have a rebreather?"

"It came with the suit." She gasped again as she continued to follow after them. Her eyes widened as she saw herself swimming directly into the mine-field layed by the hostage taker. Thinking quickly she stretched her arms out and thought "shield" to herself. Causing her to deploy a large shield and causing the bombs to harmlessly explode against the hard shell.

"Intimidation factor, too!" Snow raced past what was left of the bomb fragments and into the sea - how redundant - of algae, chasing after the assailant.

Deep under the sea, in an underwater cave, was a city. A city of sharks, dolphins and countless other fish. In this city a scheme was being hatched by its ruling bodies. "My lord!" The young shark steward said as he stepped into a throne decorated in statues forged from coral itself. "Yes?" The robed dolphin at the end replied, guards dressed in a similar power armor as the attacker surrounding him.

"My lord. We got a report from Traz. She has captured the heir of The Thorn and is on her way now." "Excellent, with his knowledge of the surfacee world we shall know where to strike..."

"Were there any...complications?" The ruler asked. "Well my lord, a surface dweller and a traitor are in pursuit." The dolphin perked a brow. "How close are they?" "Five minutes my lord, Traz claims to have lost them in an algae field." "You can never be sure Morvees, get the guards ready..."

Meanwhile, Eavesdropping on the conversation was a hooded, dark grey and lighter grey reef shark was present in the corner nearby, dressed in elaborate, ornate robes. He had two scars over each of his eyes from when he escaped from this underwater city, but had returned after becoming a bounty hunter for hire. He was known for wielding a staff, and took this particular contract not for cash, but for payback.

TO BE CONTINUED...